Textron Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Textron as an intern

Pros – Great managers, easy going culture and a great talent mobility

Cons – None that I can think of.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep it up! Ride out the sequester and we'll have this.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Textron full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Hard working, generally pleasant workforce
Fairly good salary and benefits
Have found senior leadership to be competent

Cons – Tolerance of poor performers is excessive
Seems like very week there's a new org structure -- to include the BUs

Current Employee – been working at Textron full-time for more than a year

Pros – Interesting product line: Helicopters, Armored Vehicles, Smart Bombs, Private Jets
Diversified Conglomerate
Global Business Units locations
History of business (proven)

Cons – Old workforce
Workplace feels like an old high school at times
Lack of Textron brand recognition
Bleak business outlook

Advice to Senior Management – Learn to retain top tier talent
Increase awareness of the parent company & subsidiaries
Change attitude from "Oh well, that's Textron for ya!" to "Let's improve / change XYZ..."
Challenge employees in a more aggressive manner

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Textron full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Great brands, exciting products
Tons of opportunity for career growth both as individual contributor and into management

Cons – Different businesses with different cultures - not really a con, but challenging when seeking other opportunities.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Textron as an intern

Pros – Great People, got exposed to all kinds of cool technology

Cons – "Layoff focussed" environment, as an intern there was a lot of down time spent sitting at desk with nothing to do

Advice to Senior Management – have less meetings about meetings about meetings

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Textron full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Some talented people, some nice people.

Cons – Mostly idiots. Management is out of the dark ages. Very top heavy management style with no one to do the works (money spent on top managers). Horrible place to work if you're in IT.

Advice to Senior Management – Dump 1/2 your management team and hire talented worker bees. Quit hiring kids out of college and expecting them to preform as veterans. They're not.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Textron full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – - used to be international but Kautex still is and you can get some good experience
- if you were on the Pension, then it was worth sticking around
- fly in Private Jet here and there was nice and saved time at the Airport

Cons – -2 to 3 tier employee systems, the Haves, the have nots and worse the folks that have nothing
-Health Care Plans
-No Pension
- 401 to linked to company stock price
- relocation program
- "good ole boys club still"
-if you want to learn why "cash" is important this is a good job to learn from

Advice to Senior Management – Recommend selling and dividing up to owners that want to invest in people and processes. Textron used to be known as that type of Company when it first started out and about the early 90's lost it way to where alot of the employees will tell you it's just a job.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Textron full-time for more than 10 years

Pros – Stable job if you've been with the company for at least 10-15 years

Cons – Cessna management doesn't care about employee's. One employee over heard a senior management tell a secretary who asking about the mechanics being over worked due to massive overtime, that all of the mechanics were just like any other tool the company had. When they wear out, they'll just replace them. Also, have had only two raises in since 2009 and they didn't keep up with inflation. Hence, the standard of living has been going backwards for going on four years.

Advice to Senior Management – Your biggest asset/resource is the employee's. How they go so goes the company. It would be a great idea to promote within the company instead of bringing someone from outside who doesn't know anything about, in this case, aviation.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Textron as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Never had to work more than 40 hours

Cons – Most interns didn't have very meaningful exposure

Former Employee – worked at Textron full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Learned Six Sigma and other functional business experience that has helped me with my career.

Cons – Not a very female-friendly culture. I had male colleagues say unprofessional and in particular when I was pregnant, inappropriate comments simply because I was female. There is almost no diversity. Unless you are an old, white male, this is not the place to work.

There is absolutely no career growth or talent management. I worked with some very talented, smart people who either were laid off or left. By the time I left the company at the end of 2010, all the good talent was gone.

Advice to Senior Management – Hire diverse, talented people and the innovation will come.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend